A good dashboard answers questions before anyone asks them. A bad one generates more meetings to explain what the numbers mean.
This course teaches you information architecture for business dashboards. You will learn which visualizations work for different data types, how to structure multiple views for different roles, and automation techniques that keep data fresh without daily manual exports.
Practical Skills
We build dashboards from scratch using real business data: sales pipelines, production metrics, customer support queues, and financial KPIs. You learn when to use tables versus charts, how to highlight exceptions without creating alarm fatigue, and layout principles that guide attention to what matters most.
The technical portion covers connecting live data sources, setting up automated refresh schedules, and building drill-down capabilities so users can investigate anomalies themselves. No programming required, but you will write formulas and configure database connections.
Program Structure
What You Will Build
- Executive summary dashboard with key business metrics
- Team performance tracker with individual and collective KPIs
- Automated alert system for threshold breaches
- Mobile-friendly views for remote access
- Custom visualizations for your specific metrics
Technical Setup
- Primary Tools
- Power BI or Tableau, depending on your organization
- Data Sources
- Excel, Google Sheets, SQL databases, API connections
- Deployment
- Cloud hosting, sharing permissions, version control